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Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface to the US edition

Introduction: spatiotemporal thresholds and the experience of otherness

Beyond borders

Thresholds as social artifacts

Approaching otherness

An emancipating spatiality?

PART I

1. Exemplary metropolitan rhythms and the city of enclaves

Rhythms, social practices, and public space

The logic of red zones

The partitioned city and the “framing” of identities

A “state of exception” becoming the rule

Exception versus thresholds

Red zones as normalizing exceptions and the “city of thresholds”

Citizens before the fencing politics

From the city of enclaves to the city of thresholds

2. Inventing rhythms and inhabiting exception

Inhabiting rhythms

Habits, habitation, and otherness

An experience of the aftermath: inhabiting a “state of exception”

Can space activate memories of discontinuity?

PART II

3. Walter Benjamin’s thresholds

Traces and individuality

The flâneur and urban phantasmagoria

The dialectics of disenchantment

A “study of thresholds”

4. Navigating the metropolitan space: walking as a form of negotiation with otherness

The metaphor of navigation

Crossing passages to otherness

Negotiating choreographies

5. Theatricality: the art of creating thresholds

Approaching the other

Distance and democracy

Distance, difference, and racism

Four steps towards the different

Theatrical distance

Proximate otherness

Baudelaire and the clown

The theatrical city

Neighborhoods and manageable proximity

PART III

6. Heterotopias: appropriating Foucault’s geography of otherness

Power, order, and places

The spatialization of knowledge

Spaces of otherness?

Constitution in turmoil

Heterotopias as spaces in suspense

7. Identities and rebellion in Zapatista heterotopias

Those without a face

The mask

Any face

Heterotopian experiences

8. The December 2008 youth uprising in Athens: glimpses of a possible city of thresholds

A spontaneous uprising

The quest for urban justice

Identities in crisis and the experience of urban porosity

Is there life after December?

PART IV

9. Squares in movement

Legitimacy crisis and the role of contemporary communication practices

“Common space” as threshold space

Reinventing community

“We”?

10. Emerging common spaces as a challenge to the city of crisis

11. Urban commoning and the city of thresholds

References

Index

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